To demonstrate what I mean by shifting of the position of the sun on the horizon that I described in the previous post, here are two sunrise pictures from separate times of year at Palo Verde.  On the left is a photo I took in January and on the right is a photo I took this morning.  I know it’s not a new discovery to science, but I thought it was still cool to see, particularly because my previous experience steered me wrong in predicting the sun’s location; I had neglected to factor in the change in the earth’s tilt relative to the sun from January to May, which results in a sunrise that is further to the north.  Science is cool.

… I bring you the sunrise… well, without the sun.  In my second attempt to create a time lapse movie, I was unable to predict the location of the sun this morning.  When Adam, a graduate student who’s currently staying here for an OTS course, asked where we should point our cameras to get a good shot of the rising sun, I assumed that it would rise in roughly the same position on the horizon that it had in January of 2008 and 2007; over the mountains show in this video.  Nevertheless, the sun rises in a vastly different position now, in May.  Thus, neither Adam nor I took time lapses that included the sun in the frame.  Live and learn.

There was some fantastic fog though.